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Anti Gun VS. Pro Gun - Lets Compare

I thought it would be fair to compare the different mindsets of people and thier pro gun beliefs vs. the anti gun beliefs. People who are pro gun understand that it can mean the difference between saving your life or losing it. People who are antigun have just as many reason to be against the right to bear arms for many reasons including personal loss or having to see careless friends and family use guns wrongly.

If there's one thing we all can learn is that the past is always a great teacher for the present. Being since that is true, I figured I would organize some quotes and mind sets from BOTH pro gun advocates from the past and anti gun advocates from the past as well. Although there is less anti gun quotes, you can get the idea behind the intentions of these individuals who were anti gun. Being non partisan on the issue can help to clarify and so here it is, the great gun debate, pro vs. anti:

PRO:

The 2nd Amendment to the Constitution: “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” – The 2nd Amendment to the Constitution

“If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.” - Anonymous American adage

“The Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms.” –Samuel Adams

“Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man gainst his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American…” – Tench Coxe 1788

“Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.” - Joseph Stalin

PRO:

“The Constitution preserves “the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation…(where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.” - James Madison, The Federalist, No. 46

“Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property… Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them. ” –Thomas Paine

“It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

ANTI:

“In earlier times, it was easier to control one million people than to physically kill one million people; today, it is infinitely easier to kill one million people than to control one million people.” - Zbigniew Brzezinski <====

“When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.” - Thomas Jefferson

“Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who didn’t. ” – Ben Franklin

“What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms.” – Thomas Jefferson

“A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government.” – George Washington

ANTI:

“Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.” - Joseph Stalin

“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined…The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun.” – Patrick Henry

“Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense?” – Patrick Henry

“(The Constitution preserves) the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation…(where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.” –James Madison

ANTI:

“Those now possessing weapons and ammunition are at once to turn them over to the local police authority. Firearms and ammunition found in a Jew’s possession will be forfeited to the government without compensation. Whoever willfully or negligently violates the provisions will be punished with imprisonment and a fine.” - Nazi Law (Regulations Against Jews’ Possession of Weapons), 1938

“If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.” - Joseph Stalin

PRO:

“If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government…” – Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist (#28)

“A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.” –Thomas Jefferson, Rights of British America, 1774

“The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside. And while a single nation refuses to lay them down, it is proper that all should keep them up. Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them; for while avarice and ambition have a place in the heart of man, the weak will become a prey to the strong.” - Thomas Paine, “Thoughts on Defensive War”, July, 1775

“To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.” - Richard Henry Lee, 1778

“To disarm the people is the best and most effective way to enslave them.” – George Mason

“The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing.” - Adolf Hitler, April 1942

PRO:

“If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of crime rates reduced by such legislation. That they cannot do so after a century and a half of trying — that they must sweep under the rug the southern attempts at gun control in the 1870-1910 period, the northeastern attempts in the 1920-1939 period, the attempts at both Federal and State levels in 1965-1976 — establishes the repeated, complete and inevitable failure of gun laws to control serious crime.” - Orrin Hatch, “The Right to Keep and Bear Arms”

“After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.” – William S. Burroughs, 1991

“The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference – they deserve a place of honor with all that’s good.”- George Washington

Not all anti gun quotes and mindsets were actually anti gun (per se) as you can see, some of them are admitting to the fact that power comes from it. Other examples of anti gun mindsets and the people who quoted them in history express the real threat which was posed to them via guns.

The moral of this story is that guns can be good...and they can be bad. If your main goal was to disarm a nation and (kill) deal with those who did not want to disarm, gun owners would be threat number 1. Just as the 2009 MIAC said, the new "terrorists" will be home grown or domestic, effectively turning neighbors against each other and making way for division amongst those who understand the need to own a gun and those who only see evil when they even think of guns.

Re: Anti Gun VS. Pro Gun - Lets Compare

in terms of the very commonly raised point of personal protection , really having a police force is an unecessary repetition . Secondarily as reducing one method of violence , it is just one - Timothy McVeigh used a bomb . Thirdly just thought this - in terms of the rights of individuals to have arms to defend themselves against a possibly tyrannical government practically no one individual can have sufficient firepower to really challenge any government . Waco was the ATF .

Re: Anti Gun VS. Pro Gun - Lets Compare

Originally Posted by Ambrocious

I thought it would be fair to compare the different mindsets of people and thier pro gun beliefs vs. the anti gun beliefs. People who are pro gun understand that it can mean the difference between saving your life or losing it. People who are antigun have just as many reason to be against the right to bear arms for many reasons including personal loss or having to see careless friends and family use guns wrongly.

If there's one thing we all can learn is that the past is always a great teacher for the present. Being since that is true, I figured I would organize some quotes and mind sets from BOTH pro gun advocates from the past and anti gun advocates from the past as well. Although there is less anti gun quotes, you can get the idea behind the intentions of these individuals who were anti gun. Being non partisan on the issue can help to clarify and so here it is, the great gun debate, pro vs. anti:

Is this a joke? What an insult to use only Nazis and Communists to portray opinions of those who believe in gun control. If you want to create a relevant debate over the issue, don't be a genuine jag-off.

Re: Anti Gun VS. Pro Gun - Lets Compare

Originally Posted by Ambrocious

PRO:

“When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.” - Thomas Jefferson

Actually, Jefferson was referring to the French Revolution when he stated the above. By the way, France is a country in Western Europe that tried to overthrow its monarchy. It would be disingenuous to equate Robspierre with President Obama. Louis XVI was responsible for the deaths of nearly 40,000 Frenchmen. I think too many Americans are losing their heads over the possibility of gun regulation.

Re: Anti Gun VS. Pro Gun - Lets Compare

Originally Posted by chrisrobin

Actually, Jefferson was referring to the French Revolution when he stated the above. By the way, France is a country in Western Europe that tried to overthrow its monarchy. It would be disingenuous to equate Robspierre with President Obama. Louis XVI was responsible for the deaths of nearly 40,000 Frenchmen. I think too many Americans are losing their heads over the possibility of gun regulation.

Re: Anti Gun VS. Pro Gun - Lets Compare

PRO:
I want every American to eat Apple Pie and chop down cherry trees and have the Stars and Stripes in the back window of his truck, and a chick with chrome tits on the mudflaps, and to date a mud wrestler named Shirley whose only dream is to be a stay-at-home-mom and raise god-fearing home-schooled, creationist children, and to eat at McDonalds until he dies of a coronary at age 56 instead of being saved by god-damned socialist high tax health care, and then, and only then can the god-damned government pry the gun from his cold dead hands.

President Limbaugh.

ANTI:
The government should take the guns away from the people so I am not afraid of them any more and so I can make everyone into gay atheists with health care.

Re: Anti Gun VS. Pro Gun - Lets Compare

Originally Posted by bankside

PRO:
I want every American to eat Apple Pie and chop down cherry trees and have the Stars and Stripes in the back window of his truck, and a chick with chrome tits on the mudflaps, and to date a mud wrestler named Shirley whose only dream is to be a stay-at-home-mom and raise god-fearing home-schooled, creationist children, and to eat at McDonalds until he dies of a coronary at age 56 instead of being saved by god-damned socialist high tax health care, and then, and only then can the god-damned government pry the gun from his cold dead hands.

President Limbaugh.

ANTI:
The government should take the guns away from the people so I am not afraid of them any more and so I can make everyone into gay atheists with health care.

Comrade Jean-Pierre Stalin von Kenya

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I see how this thread works! This is fun!

Probably should be moved to fun and games though.

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Re: Anti Gun VS. Pro Gun - Lets Compare

Yup, it's from infowars! Here I thought people were unable to search and find stuff...now I realize it's selective ignorance instead.

Oh yeah...I almost forgot the video! You sheeple are gonna love this!

Don't fucking pull that shit.

What you did was pure plagiarism and in school, would have gotten you expelled or in the real world....fired.

I have a suspicion that all of us here are far more capable of the lateral thinking and eye-hand co-ordination skills required to research our subjects than even you are based on your obsessive reliance on the madman Jones' site for all the nonsense you bring to this forum.

When we're talking selective ignorance, I imagine the real problem is that only so much filters in through Alex's and your tin-foil hats.

Re: Anti Gun VS. Pro Gun - Lets Compare

I'm not anti-gun. I'm anti people (like the NRA) who find every little thing about guns being somehow connected to the second amendment. For example, there were no such things as the assault weapons of today or even sawed off shotguns when the second amendment was enacted. Should the NRA get out of the back pocket of the gun manufacturers and stop being their defacto lobbyists in Washington, they might have a little more legitimacy with the gun control advocates. Until they do, just follow the money. What can be said by a lobby that spends millions of dollars to lobby its opinion. It is not about the right to own a gun but a tradition of allowing a morally corrupt organization like the NRA to spread its influence on politics. Thinly disguised as some constitutional right organization, it supports the agenda of greedy weapons manufacturers, while enlisting the support of gullible and reactionary hunters and gun enthusiasts to help lobby their point.

We live in a democratic republic. If the majority rule decides to install gun restrictions and you resist.....you're a traitor and a criminal. Last time I checked, the government isn't coming to take your liberties, or kick down your door and drag you away. And even if they did, there wouldn’t be a damn thing ANYBODY could do about it. If Congress can get away with violating the Constitution by passing the Patriot Act, more gun laws are a no-brainer.